It's about children cooking themselves, growing themselves. When kids grow it and cook it they eat it.

Good food is a right, not a privilege. It brings children into a positive relationship with their health, community and environment.

This is the power of gathering: it inspires us, delightfully, to be more hopeful, more joyful, more thoughtful: in a word, more alive.

When you have the best and tastiest ingredients, you can cook very simply and the food will be extraordinary because it tastes like what it is.

How we eat can change the world

Teaching kids how to feed themselves and how to live in a community responsibly is the center of an education.

I am confident that we will see a growing consensus about the most effective way to transform food in America: building a real, sustainable and free school-lunch program.

I believe that every child in this world needs to have a relationship with the land...to know how to nourish themselves...and to know how to connect with the community around them.

The decisions you make are a choice of values that reflect your life in every way.

We have to bring children into a new relationship to food that connects them to culture and agriculture.

To have a basic ingredient that can be prepared a million different ways is a beautiful thing.

I would have to confess that in the land of the toubabu, I had managed to save only myself.

They are sharing a drink called loneliness.

I'm afraid that reason will triumph and that the world will become a place where anyone who doesn't fit that will become unnecessary

Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it.

The problem is that I know the textbook answers to any question you care to ask.

You gotta understand: I'm a man with needs that needs fulfilling. And if you ain't with it, somebody else is willing.

All pleasure should be a little bent, don't you think?

I cannot remember back to a year in which I did not consider myself to be a writer, and the younger I was the bigger that capital 'W.

The closest I ever came to a menage-a-trois was when I dated a schizophrenic.

we're all bozos on the bus, so might as well sit back and enjoy the ride.